When is the next MAS meeting?
Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announces policy decisions on its published schedule. Because Monetary Authority of Singapore sets monetary policy for the SGD, its rate decisions and forward guidance are among the most important scheduled catalysts for SGD exchange rates, and sell-side FX desks reposition their SGD forecasts around each meeting. FX Bank Forecast tracks how the major investment banks' SGD targets shift before and after MAS decisions, so you can see whether the consensus is moving with the policy path or diverging from it. Watching the cross-bank reaction to each meeting is often a more durable signal than any single house call.
What is the MAS's current policy stance?
Monetary Authority of Singapore's policy lean is read from its most recent decisions and guidance. A more hawkish stance — biased toward higher-for-longer rates — tends to be supportive of the SGD, while a dovish, easing-biased stance tends to weigh on it, though the market reaction always depends on what was already priced in. What matters for SGD forecasting is less the stance in isolation than how it compares with what investment banks expected and how it shifts the projected rate path. FX Bank Forecast aggregates how 30 major banks read the MAS path and translates it into where the SGD consensus and its dispersion sit.
How does the MAS affect the SGD?
Monetary-policy expectations are one of the dominant drivers of currency moves, so Monetary Authority of Singapore's decisions — and, just as importantly, how they compare with other central banks — feed directly into where strategists set their SGD targets. Relative policy paths (the MAS versus the Fed and other majors), the pace of cuts or hikes, and the tone of guidance are the channels through which MAS actions transmit into the SGD. FX Bank Forecast compares the published SGD forecasts of 30 major investment banks side by side and shows how that consensus — and the spread of views around it — shifts as the MAS outlook evolves.